Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is homosexuality? Is it curable? Some recent misleading propaganda alleges that homosexuality is an incurable, hereditary condition, and that the homosexual way of life is therefore "normal" for an unspecified proportion of the population. This view has had an assist from Kinsey statistics on the frequency of homosexual acts in youth...
...hetero-sexual. The statement is as rational as one declaring that a man can at the same time have cancer and perfect health. Some homosexuals are occasionally capable of lustless mechanical sex with a woman . . . They tend to marry as a means of proving . . . that they are completely normal...
Summer vacations had already gone the way of other peacetime pleasures. With regular instruction established on a year-round basis, a third 12-week summer term was added to the normal two-semester system...
...catalogue, the staples remained and were taught by the best men in their respective fields. Some academic changes were evident, of course. Science fields were stressed, and most of the labs became top secret war research centers. Many students received intensive training in languages definitely foreign from the normal Germanic and Romantic peace time studies. The Armed Services needed men proficient in Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. Harvard training helped supply these people...
...Suez Canal closing was also beginning to pinch the Arabs. With its markets cut off, Kuwait, the biggest Middle East producer, cut back production to an estimated 75% of its normal 1,200,000 bbls. daily; Iraq's Kirkuk field is down to 200,000 bbls. daily from a normal 700,000 bbls. daily, and in Saudi Arabia, Aramco has reduced production 30% from its usual one million-plus barrels daily...